Advertisment for the premiere of Béla Balázs's mystery play The Castle of the Bluebearded Prince and the Blood of the Holy Virgin
Budapest: 1913. 1 p. Near fine condition.
Béla Balázs (1884-1949) writer, poet, actor, film aesthete, film director, critic, film school teacher. His volume Misteriya (Mysteries) was published in Nyugat in 1912. It contains the one-act plays The Castle of the Bluebearded Prince, The Fairy and The Blood of the Holy Virgin. At the time of the publication of The Mysteries, Béla Bartók's musical transcription of The Bluebeard's Castle was already complete, but no one agreed to perform the opera, claiming that it could not be performed. But Béla Balázs did not rest. As a result of his efforts, with the help of the Nyugat, the original prose version of Bluebeard's Castle and The Blood of the Holy Virgin was staged in the Budapest Orfeum in 1913. Lajos Gulácsy created the sets for the performance. Béla Bartók played the piano between the two one-act plays.
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